Set your course homepage

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The homepage for your Canvas course is the page that students will first arrive at when they access your course. You have several options to choose from when setting your course homepage, including the course syllabus or activity stream. You can even create a customized page which acts as the homepage. Take some time to choose your homepage, as it will likely be the most visited page in your account.

- [Instructor] Before we start adding content…and organizing our course,…let's take care of some housekeeping items.…The first is to determine what the course homepage will be.…This will be the page that students first see…when they log into your course.…So you're going to want to make sure…that you customize it the way you'd like it to be.…By default, it's showing us the course module page,…and this may be what you want to keep…as the course homepage.…You can change it, however.…In order to do this,…on the right hand side,…I'm going to click on choose homepage.…This brings up a pop-up box…and gives us several options.…

At the top, we have our course activity stream,…which will show any recent activity for the course…and help to keep students informed.…The second option is pages front page.…And as you can see right now that is grayed out,…and that's because we have not yet created any pages.…This is something we'll do in an upcoming video,…and I'll mention this again there.…Next, we have course modules,…which is currently selected.…

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7/25/2017

Canvas is the leading open-source learning management system, used by institutions and instructors around the globe. Learn how to get your Canvas classroom up and running fast, with this beginner-level overview of its features and functions. Oliver Schinkten explores how to set up a class, work with students, and teach online with Canvas 2017, and explores best practices for leveraging Canvas for student success. Topics include grading assignments, building quizzes, communicating with students, and adding multimedia and other resources.